On Apr 12 01:11, Robert McKay wrote: > In order to run sshd as an unprivileged user I had to use a nasty > hexedit hack on the sshd.exe file to replace the seteuid() call (which > fails / returns -1 without admin privileges and causes sshd to exit) > with a call to isalpha() which has (almost) the same function > prototype, but always returns 0 unless your userid 'is an alphanumeric > charater' :)
Aaaaargh! I don't know what you're doing wrong but this is *totally* unnecessary. You can run sshd as unprivileged user without having to change the sshd code. You can do this while another sshd is running on port 22 under a privileged account. What the user has to do is to create her own sshd_config file and own host keys. If no other sshd is running on the machine, just chown the host key files in /etc and switch off privilege separation in /etc/sshd_config. For kicks I just tried it. What I did: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 vmbert2k8 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-03-06 17:01 i686 Cygwin $ id uid=1004(hein) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users) $ pwd /home/hein $ mkdir -p etc var/run $ cp /etc/sshd_config etc $ vi etc/sshd_config [Set `Port 2022'] [Set `HostKey /home/hein/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key'] [Set `UsePrivilegeSeparation no'] [Set `PidFile /home/hein/var/run/sshd.pid'] [:wq!] $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /home/hein/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key -N '' Generating public/private rsa key pair. Your identification has been saved in /home/hein/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key. Your public key has been saved in /home/hein/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub. The key fingerprint is: 02:5d:02:5d:e8:2e:c6:b9:4c:d9:93:6c:13:ef:5d:61 [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ /usr/sbin/sshd -f sshd_config -D Then, from another machine: $ uname -a Linux calimero 2.6.23.17-LL #1 SMP Tue Mar 25 11:21:47 CET 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ ssh -l hein -p 2022 vmbert2k8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
